Conservative
activist and tax reformer Bill Sizemore filed a legal motion in Marion
County, Oregon, Circuit Court asking the court to order Secretary of
State Bill Bradbury to include two of Sizemore's arguments in the State
Voters' Pamphlet.

Sizemore
also told NewsWithViews.com that he filed a separate motion asking the
court to enjoin Bradbury from printing the Voters Pamphlet until a final
decision has been made in his case.

The
battle between Sizemore and Bradbury began this past weekend when Secretary
Bradbury rejected two Voters Pamphlet arguments Sizemore had filed under
the headline, “Was Bill Sizemore Railroaded?”

Bradbury
claims the two identical arguments do not support any measure because
the arguments do not say anything about the measures, although both
arguments were filed with the proper forms stating that they are arguments
in support of Measures 60 and 64. Both arguments would be printed in
the Voters Pamphlet on pages bearing a bold heading making it clear
that they are arguments in support of the two measures.

Sizemore’s
legal motion asserts that Bill Bradbury has no statutory authority to
reject his arguments and cites an Oregon Supreme Court case which makes
it clear that the relevance of a Voters Pamphlet argument is to be determined
by the voters, not the Secretary of State.

“The
public employee unions filed more than a dozen bogus arguments claiming
that I was involved in racketeering, while I filed a mere two arguments
countering their claims. My arguments explain to voters that I was not
even a party to the case in question and that the judge who presided
over the case concealed a blatant conflict of interest and should have
recused himself,” Sizemore said during an interview with NewsWithViews.com.

“Bradbury
allowed his union friends to assassinate my character more than a dozen
times in the Voters Pamphlet, but is refusing to allow me to defend
myself,” he added.

"My
take on this controversy is simple: politicians attempting to silence
opposition with the help of special interests -- in this case, a labor
union, long the bastion of liberal-left Democrats," said political
strategist Mike Baker.

In
his rejected Voters Pamphlet arguments, Sizemore explains how the union
lawyers were allowed to remove all Republicans from the Multnomah County
jury pool, leaving a jury of 14 Democrats and one Green Party member,
and that the Multnomah County judge who presided over the case, Judge
Jerome LaBarre, concealed for three years the fact that his son was
a member of the same union that was suing in his dad’s court and
only confessed when his son became a teachers union president.

Sizemore’s
Voters Pamphlet arguments also explain that the same unions that are
now saying that Sizemore was “convicted” of racketeering
told the jury during the trial that the case was not about Bill Sizemore
and that Sizemore was not being sued and was not even a party to the
case. “The unions are even associating my name with forgery, even
though no one ever so much as suggested during the trial that I forged
signatures or knowingly allowed anyone else to do so,” Sizemore
said.

“The
unions are carrying on as if I was some kind of convicted felon and
yet never in my life have I been so much as charged with a crime,”
Sizemore said. Sizemore says Bradbury is trying to stall and run out
the clock, because the Voters Pamphlet is scheduled to go to the printers
on Thursday, so he had no choice but to resort to the courts.

During
NewsWithViews' interview with Sizemore, he revealed that for more than
a decade, labor unions and liberal newspapers have smeared him nonstop.

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Both
at the beginning and end of the Oregon Taxpayers United trial, teachers
union lawyers told the jury that the case was not about Bill Sizemore;
that Sizemore was not a defendant, not being sued and, in fact, not
even a party to the case.

"Oregon’s
liberal establishment has gone to the extreme, even railroading him
in court, trying to get Bill Sizemore out of politics," said Mike
Baker.